The Dark Knight

I saw the latest “the Batman” movie – if you see it you’ll probably wonder as much as me what’s up with the “the Batman” – last night with F2. It’s quite good – much better than the previous one. I had my fingers crossed that Heath Ledger’s performance would be good, to maintain his… Read more

Singapore Airlines to the rescue

Rob poked me me earlier today with some suggestions for the infamous Cairo -> Melbourne route, which got me looking into it a bit more. Long story short, I did actually find a route, via Singapore Airlines, for something like $850. Much more reasonable. However, when I add all this up, I’m still looking at… Read more

A watched bank account never accumulates

I’ve just realised I actually have a non-trivial bank balance. Nothing that would be categorised as well-off – heck, in this area I’m still practically destitute – but my point being that, when I was trying to pay off my car, every fortnight seemed so long… I was counting the dollars, estimating dates, trying to… Read more

Time to move again

Urrgh, just when I was thinking I could go one year without doing the laborious pack-move-dump cycle again, my landlady announces, on Monday, that she’s selling the place. While she’s not kicking me out directly, odds are the new owners, whomever they end up being, won’t be interested in taking me on as part of… Read more

Sara Bareilles @ the Fillmore

Sara Bareilles was very good. The place was full, mostly of people around my age – looks like I finally fell into an appropriate slice of popular culture – though skewed towards women, I guess not surprisingly. Of the guys there, it seemed divided between those dragged out by their girlfriends and willing to stand… Read more

Still aboot

No news of note to report. I’m still considering travel options… Egypt would be great except I can’t find any way to get to Melbourne from there that isn’t ridiculously expensive (cheapest thus far is $3,600, for that single, one-way leg of the trip). Which sucks, because it’d otherwise be perfect. :( So anyway, still… Read more

Nobody gets me

Huzzah! According to this random blog entry: The least useful profile elements in helping people get other people (in increasing order of utility) were: • Profile picture was a non-person… This amuses me greatly as my Facebook profile picture has been, since I signed up, a picture of Stitch. I think this actually conveys a… Read more